On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:55:17AM +0000, Nicholas Chammas wrote:
This is my first time posting to python-ideas. (I subscribed today.) I gather from Andrew and Steven's responses that ideas discussed on this list are supposed to be more "fully baked" than my proposal here. My apologies.
Not necessarily. This list frequently includes half-baked ideas, but the "bigger" the proposal, the more baked it should be to be taken seriously. I can proposal that Python should include a fully-functioning self-aware computer AI, but unless I actually have a fully-functioning self-aware AI written in Python to include, I might as well just wish for a flying pony. On the other hand, "Add math.zero through math.ten constants" doesn't need anything but a proposal to be discussed. Still, occassionally its useful to make a really big proposal. Even if it doesn't end up being accepted, it might lead somewhere interesting. -- Steve